Fundamentals of Animation

The Fundamentals of Animation Course provides students with the animation tools required to create, manipulate, and refine any computer-animated sequence. Building on the traditional animation fundamentals of motion and timing, the course teaches students computer animation techniques and applies them to the process of animating modeled projects. The course focuses on positional animation and control with the use of keyframing, timing curves, dope sheets, and dependency graphs, as well as the tools to manipulate them.

Course Outline

• Keyframe Animation
• Motion Timing and Analysis
• Dope Sheet and Action Graphs
• Hierarchical Animation
• Camera and Light Positional Animation
• Animation Rendering